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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Unicode
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:16:16 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > My prescription, respectfully submitted, comes down to this:
> > 1. Ctlib. Follow Sybase.
> > 2. Dblib. All internal representation in UTS-8.
> > 3. ODBC. Unicode pass-thru.
>
> Doesn't the FreeTDS ODBC driver exist as a wrapper around one of the
> lower-level APIs? For varying definitions of 'pass-thru', then, this sounds
> right to me.
>
dblib, ct-lib, and ODBC all ride atop libtds. So they are all on equal
footing regarding access to those nuances. Sybase on the other hand, has
ODBC sit atop ct-lib which makes in rather inefficient.

This stuff has my head spinning... I tried to look into how dblib and
ctlib may handle multibyte character sets but didn't particularly turn up
anything. The Sybase International Developer's Guide was a little opaque
on the matter.

Definately post 0.52 material.

> > I'll stop here, before Brian tells me that the very next suggestion I make
> > had better be expressed in 'C'.
>
> Perhaps I should start looking deeper into the FreeTDS code, for both of our
> sakes? :)
>
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>





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